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Innumeracy
by John Allen Paulos
Mathematical illiteracy and its consequences: coincidence, pseudoscience, bad risk estimates, in a short, funny book from 1988. Still the standard.
Read it if…
you want to stop being fooled by numbers.
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Skip it if…
you want advanced statistics.
Try instead: A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper →
Three things you will actually use
- Coincidences are expected.
- Estimate orders of magnitude.
- Numbers are a language.
Do this first
Read the chapter on coincidence.
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Paulos's Innumeracy.
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